January 7, 2013

In honour of hockey season making a return, we take a look at the Detroit Cougars (the Red Wing nickname didn’t come into use until 1932) inaugural season in 1926, played right here at the Border Cities Arena. The first team in 1926-27. From Wikipedia: At the April 18, 1926 NHL meetings to discuss expansion of the NHL, five applications were received from Detroit along with three from…